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Rural Business Investment Program

Program Information

Popular name

RBIP or RBIC Program

Program Number

10.860

Program objective

To promote economic development and create wealth and job opportunities among individuals living in rural areas and help to meet the equity capital investment needs primarily of smaller enterprises located in such areas.

Program expenditures, by FY (2023 - 2025)

This chart shows obligations for the program by fiscal year. All data for this chart was provided by the administering agency and sourced from SAM.gov, USASpending.gov, and Treasury.gov.

For more information on each of these data sources, please see the About the data page.

Additional program information

  1. 2024

    $124,396,064 was deployed in 2024. 25 new investments which accounted for $74,888,990 deployed. 36 Add-on investments which accounted for $49,507,674 deployed

Single Audit Applies (2 CFR Part 200 Subpart F):

For additional information on single audit requirements for this program, review the current Compliance Supplement.

OMB is working with the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) and agency offices of inspectors general to include links to relevant oversight reports. This section will be updated once this information is made available.

7 CFR Part 4290.

Program details

Categories & sub-categories

Business and Commerce

Program types

Eligible beneficiaries

  • Anyone/general public
  • Private nonprofit institution/organization
  • Profit organization

Additional resources